Do you think the story maybe got changed over the years before it made it to Genesis?
2007-12-16 16:00:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That story appears as the Babylonian creation myth long before the Bible writers got it and reworked it.
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"Creation Myths
The Bible's similarities with Egyptian, Greek and Babylonian mythology are too close to be a coincidence. The writers weren’t isolated from other cultures and they didn’t get their ideas by sitting on some mountaintop meditating with God; they borrowed ideas from their neighbor's creation myths. The technical term is called called syncretism.
This sample collection is intended to show that creation myths were common to the cultures that surrounded ancient Israel. This series covers the Mesopotamian area, but they were common all around the ancient world. That question of where did we come from nags us to this day. These epic stories may have satisfied the peoples of yesteryear, but now the new frontier is in science."
Seven Days of Creation myths
http://www.usbible.com/Creation/creation_myths.htm
2007-12-16 16:03:50 · answer #1 · answered by Buke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a metaphor. The concept is that humans lived in paradise or "heaven" before they sinned.
2007-12-17 00:06:10 · answer #2 · answered by God 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eden is now a parking lot.
2007-12-17 00:05:33 · answer #3 · answered by Jesusa 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think the story is just as its written in the Word of God.
2007-12-17 00:04:31 · answer #4 · answered by paula r 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
That's Russia isn't it?
2007-12-17 00:04:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was always fiction.
2007-12-17 00:20:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋